Tesco error or intentionally misleading?

danandjens_worldtravels

I went to buy chick peas yesterday from Warrington Tesco and noticed the ticket price conversion to, price per 100g was incorrect. I am a little concerned as I often use the shelf conversions to compare products

This is what I discovered -

Tesco Chickpeas 18.4p per 100g (drained weight)
The price of a 240g (dw) can is 44p

Tesco Organic Chickpeas 14p per 100g (drained weight)
The price of a 230g (dw) carton is 53p

by my calculations the Organic should be 23p per 100g
(53p / 230g X 100 = 23.04) correctly (44p / 240g X 100 = 18.33)

Now is this a misprint, a poor calculation on Tesco's part (or mine - but if I am wrong please explain how Tesco got their figure) or a deliberate misleading on price?

Are there any other examples?

Jevvers

I find the supermarkets very often have wrong, misleading or poorly positioned tickets. Too often to be error IMO.

geordie_joe

Jevvers wrote: »

I find the supermarkets very often have wrong, misleading or poorly positioned tickets. Too often to be error IMO.

I don't think it's the tickets that are wrong, misleading or poorly positioned, it's just that the supermarkets ave a policy of "No empty space on the shelves".

So if they haven't got the product that should be on that section of the shelves, they put something else in it's place.

So you might get a section of shelf that has a label saying "Value Peas 17p", but they run out of value peas and fill the space with another brand that costs 30p per tin.

Having said that, I shop in Morrisons and Tescos and have noticed it's always a more more expensive brand than the labels says.

You always see a label saying peas 17p with a 30p tin of peas on the shelf, but you never see a label saying peas 30p with a 17p tin of peas on the shelf.

So they must have a policy that says "If you don't have the product for that shelf, put a more expensive one on the shelf, NEVER A CHEAPER ONE"

Telling the customer a tin of beans is 17p, then charging them 30p at the till is right

Telling a customer the tin of peas is 30p, then charging them 17p at the till is wrong.

zorber

geordie_joe wrote: »

Telling the customer a tin of beans is 17p, then charging them 30p at the till is right

Telling a customer the tin of peas is 30p, then charging them 17p at the till is wrong.

You need to re write your post as this reads in a different context to what you are trying to say.

jenniewb

OP, your talking about drained weight, Tesco are likely to be talking about the total weight (maybe think of it as total gross weight rather then net weight) which includes the fluid in the can. Your paying for what they carry weight wise, not what they sell food bulk/nutritional wise.

geordie_joe

zorber wrote: »

You need to re write your post as this reads in a different context to what you are trying to say.

Yet you seem to have had no trouble understanding it. Are you saying that you had no trouble knowing it was meant to be the supermarkets point of view, and not mine, but others will not be as clever as you and not understand that?

danandjens_worldtravels

jenniewb wrote: »

OP, your talking about drained weight, Tesco are likely to be talking about the total weight (maybe think of it as total gross weight rather then net weight) which includes the fluid in the can. Your paying for what they carry weight wise, not what they sell food bulk/nutritional wise.

I'm talking about drained weight because that was as the price per 100g on the shelves was displayed, the weight quoted in the calculation is also the drained weight of the can and carton - I checked them!

Yes, I too initially thought that this may be what caused the confusion, but it appears fluid in the can is not to blame.

on-the-count-of-three

You know what you saw on the shelf & I don't, but I've just looked online & the only organic chickpeas which are available to me are these
http://www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/Details/?id=266610602

This is 380g, 14p per 100g which does evaluate to 53p. Looks like it is this item that should have been on the shelf...or some-one incorrectly used this sel for your item.
Doubt it was deliberate..more likely the shelf stacker thought they had matched the correct item to the label.

I know what you mean though, I often like to use the labels for comparison, but you can't rely on them in any of the stores.